Saturday, November 26, 2016

Contentment
brings with it supreme happiness. We all want to be satisfied. But contentment
and satisfaction is not the same thing. Satisfaction never last. That is why The
Rolling Stones wrote, “I can’t get no satisfaction.” Many people say, “I will
be happy when I get this and I get that, but happiness is never found out there
in this and that. To find contentment and happiness you must go to the center
of your being. You just need to realize it’s potential.

Consciousness
gives rise to all that exist. So if you want to be happy it needs to begin in
your consciousness and not outward in the material world. That is why center should
be everywhere and circumference nowhere. Living from your center has the potential to
bring you eternal happiness.

Let’s sit
quiet for a moment and begin to peel away any layers of discontentment. Close your eyes and breathe deep. Try to get
to the center of your being. It is a
quiet still place where noting exist accept potential. Quiet and still, take
three deep breathes releasing yourself from any anguish, fear or desires.

Let’s work
on finding our center.

The potential
for contentment and happiness exist within you. That is why you should always
come from your center projecting it outward rather than drawing from the material
world inward in an attempt to find happiness. Stop looking outward to the this and the that in an attempt to
find happiness and draw from your center the potential and you will discover
eternal happiness.

Friday, October 21, 2016

The sacred vessel is the container of everything and everything
is in relationship to everything else. Although relationships are important,
throughout life, as we age we all realize that not all relationships in life
will be sacred. Some will bring us grief, misery and pain. However many will
bring us friendship, love and joy

To build this sacred
vessel, we must first be clear about our intentions. Openness is required. We
must open ourselves to everyone and to all opportunities, for growth is
inherent in all of life. Truth is fundamental – first within ourselves and then
extended to others. We must also be committed to nurturing and maintaining the
sacred vessel of relationships. Without the walls that form the sacred vessel
openness, trust, and commitment we cannot sustain its strength.

Once we have created
the sacred vessel, we can use it as the foundation for developing relationships
within and without that are healthy and harmonious. Then we can implement
certain principles that will act as guides along the path of sacred love.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

This week a
friend of mine who I haven’t seen in several years appeared in my Spin Class.
He had moved away and not taken my class for nearly eight years. He moved back
to town and reappeared like it was yesterday. Suddenly in what seemed like a blink
of the eye we reunited after eight years. Where did the time go? Had we changed?
Well, yes we both looked a bit older and we both were a bit wiser.

The blink of
an eye is an idiom. An idiom is a word
or phrase that is not taken literally. So although in reality it had been eight
years since I had seen my friend figuratively it still seemed like the blink of
an eye.

Life is like
an idiom. If taken literally it means existence.
The literal meaning of death is the end of existence. It’s plain and simple, or
is it? Is life simply existence that flashes
by and ends with death? Or is it like an idiom; not to be taken literally? It means
something so much more than it’s literal definition.

The blink of
an eye lasts only a tenth of a second. That is all that is needed to clear away dust particles
and spread lubricating fluid across the eyeball. Every time you blink your
eyelids send a cascade of oils and mucous across the surface of your eye to
keep your orbs from drying out. Blinking also keeps the eyes safe from debris
and damaging bright lights.

Why don’t we
notice the momentary darkness that is caused by the blinking of our eyes?
Scientist tells us that the human brain has an uncanny ability for ignoring
momentary blackness. Blinking suppresses activity in several area of the brain responsible
for detecting environment changes so we experience the world as continuous. No
beginning and no end. So life really is an idiom. It is true the last eight
years just flew by. Don’t squander time. Every moment counts because before you
know it; it will all be over in blink of an eye.

Friday, September 30, 2016

As I was
leaving the gym after teaching my Spin class I heard one young woman behind me
say to her friend, “I just turned eighteen so I’m just getting used to being eighteen.”
I turned around to see two very lovely young women. They looked so young and so
naïve. I thought to myself, “I’m trying to get used to the fact that I am almost
old enough to get on Medicare and collect my SSI!

I can tell
you a blink ago I was eighteen. At eighteen you are consider an adult and now responsible
for your actions. But eighteen is very young. What do you know of the world at eighteen?
Most young people are still under the care of their parents unless you were
like me and on your own at eighteen.

I knew nothing
of the world and so set out to learn in the school of hard knocks. Unsheltered
and naïve I stumbled and made many mistakes. But somehow back then it all
seemed right. Everyone was a bit more mature, a lot less privileged and
searching to be free. After all we were the hippie generation with free love
and peace.Ahh… to live in the ideals of
youth!

I wanted to stop and ask the young lady what she
was adjusting to? But I didn’t. Was it the
number eighteen, her new found adultness or the fact that she is so young and beautiful
and her whole adult life is ahead of her? I’m adjusting also to my number, my senior-ness
and looking at my life as more behind me than in front of me.

But would I
be eighteen again? No, the angst of maturing through life is something I don’t
want to repeat. I’m rather comfortable in my own skin and rather wise to the world.
I’m not questioning. I’m appreciating where I have been, where I am at and
where I hope to go.

I’m just getting
used to the number that comes with being a senior citizen.

Friday, September 23, 2016

This morning as I was making the bed I wondered how many
times in my life I had made my bed. I make my bed every day because my mother taught
me as a young child both how to make a bed and the importance of daily organization.
A well-made bed is a good start to the day and a welcoming comfort at bed time.

I believe I started making my bed at about the age of ten.
There are 365 days in a year so my best estimate is that I have made my bed
19,710 times. Does that mean I have been organized 19,710 days? Not exactly,
but I can tell you I am an organized and rather tidy person so I guess my mother
was right.

What concerns me the most is how fast the time goes from one
bed making to the other? I make my bed and before I know it I am making it again.
The first thing I do each day is wake up in my bed and the last thing I do at
night is go to sleep in my bed. It is my refuge from the world. I have always
felt safe and secure snuggled into my bed. I am one of the lucky ones. I have always
had a warm safe place to sleep. Many people don’t.

I do need to subtract from 19,710 the number of nights I have
slept in a hotel. In a hotel you never make the bed. I also have to subtract the
week I spent in the hospital unable to get out of bed. I also need to subtract
the times someone else made the bed for me. But I can make up for this loss by counting
the number of times I made my children’s beds or made the bed for someone else.

All I can tell you is that I have made the bed a lot times
in my life. I am lucky to have a bed and to have the ability to make it each
day. Most of all I am lucky to be able to get up out of bed, to have my feet
hit the floor, and get up and move.

Next time you make your
bed think about how many times you have laid down in a bed and slept in peace.
Think about how important a bed is to your life. It is a place or refuge, a
place of rest, a place of love, a place of sleep and a place of dreams.

In the end we will all count our time on earth by the days
we lived and nights we’ve slept. Be grateful each time you make your bed because
it is the start of another day and if you make your bed with care it will
welcome you back over and over again. It is the place where dreams are made and
where life gets renewed for another new day. How many times have you made your
bed? If you are lucky it’s been many times and counting.

Friday, September 16, 2016

My arthritis is kicking up this week. It is making me a little
tired. I feel my age this week although I hate to admit it. Admitting it will
not accomplish anything but slow me down and I don’t want to slow down. What I would
like is about 20 percent more energy than I feel these days and no more aches
and pains. That’s not a lot to ask; is it?

Proactive aging means to be positive about aging while at the
same time doing whatever you can to slow the process and improve the quality of
your life. Arthritis will slow you down if you let it. It can also motivate you
to keep moving and seek out alternatives to drugs and toxic medicines. Moving
the body while using the breath creates a flow of movement that is supportive
and kind. This is what is needed to ease the burden of arthritis.

Kindness is important when it comes to aging. Frustration and
anger only makes the whole process worse. Nobody ever said it was great growing
old. Aging creates limitations, but those limitations don’t need to define us
or prevent us from doing the things we love. We just need to be kind to
ourselves and make small adjustment and modifications.

Modification means being flexible and willing to adjust to each situation
without becoming weak and unforgiving. Life changes from decade to decade. Some
of the changes create a deeper and greater strength and some take it away. What
is taken away is always replaced with something more dearly needed. As my physical
stamina gives way to my sense of wisdom I realize that feeling my age is not
such a bad thing. The body may struggle and finally succumb to aging, but the wisdom
gained through a life lived has taught me to pace myself because my age is just
a number and the numbers run out at some point. Pacing gives me time to enjoy
the little things in life that I missed when I was younger and didn’t feel my
age.

Pro-Active Anti-Aging Tips

A river symbolizes the flow of time. Everything in nature has its own cycle of transitions, transformations and passageways. It is also symbolic of the many twist and turns we must encounter in life. Like the river we must take time to turn, to pause, alter our course and refresh ourselves. The river also reminds us that we can only go forward. As the saying goes, “You can never step into the same river twice.” Once the river has completed its journey it flows onto the delta which means change. Here the river loses its individuality and becomes part of one great sea. This is when we all re-become the great consciousness of the universe.
How we make the journey is more important than the journey
Improving and maintaining your health is Pro-Active Anti-Aging! It’s more than a good diet and exercise. Attitude, awareness and acceptance let us navigate the many twists and turns of life with strength, balance, flexibility and peace of mind.
Follow Doctor Lynn’s Pro-Active Anti-Aging Tips and make your life a river of flowing consciousness where each new change is met with the best of you!